We’ve just stopped this vehicle in #Kesgrave as when we were following it the driver had music videos playing on @youtube on his phone attached to the window screen. #TOR issued for using a motor vehicle when television receiving apparatus was visible to the driver #PHQARV #922 pic.twitter.com/uWCi6PKTEu

PC Jonny Firman, from the roads and armed policing team, said: “A video playing upon a mobile phone, in the view of the driver, could take away their concentration on actually driving the motor vehicle and it would only take a momentary lapse in concentration for a collision to occur.”

Watching television while driving: The rules

No person shall drive, or cause or permit to be driven, a motor vehicle on a road, if the driver is in such a position as to be able to see, whether directly or by reflection, a television receiving apparatus or other cinematographic apparatus used to display anything other than information –

about the state of the vehicle or its equipment;

about the location of the vehicle and the road on which it is located;

to assist the driver to see the road adjacent to the vehicle; or

to assist the driver to reach his destination.

In this regulation “television receiving apparatus” means any cathode ray tube carried on a vehicle and on which there can be displayed an image derived from a television broadcast, a recording or a camera or computer.